This is a plaque outside of the Fisherman's Hospital in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. The inscription reads:
This House was erected at the expense of the Corporation of Great Yarmouth Anno Domini 1702.
At a Common Council on the 3rd July 1711 it was ordered:
That no person be admitted under the age of 60 years.
That fishermen only be admitted but if married their wives to accompany them.
That if any fisherman becomes a widower in the Hospital, he shall not marry out of said Hospital without the approbation of the Committee.
That no person be allowed to lodge in any house other than such as are regularyly admitted under any pretence whatsoever, except as a Nurse for the sick, and even that not without consent of the foreman, under the penalty of losing the allowance for that week in which such lodger shall be taken in and continued to be lodged.
That the Committee make no weekly or other payment to those who do not live and lodge in the said Hospital, unless some extraordinary reason for a short nonresidence, should be allowed by the said Committee, and in case and persons wilfully and without leave absent themselves for seven days, such persons shall be suspended by the said Committee and discharged at the next meeting.
That the outward gate of the Hospital be locked exactly at 9 of the clock every night, and that the key of the said gate be kept by such dweller in the Hospital as the Committee shall from time to time direct.
That the benefactions and the above orders be painted and affixed at the Gables on each side of the Hospital Gate.
